An History of the River Thames
Published by John & Josiah Boydell
First edition, first issue, of this wonderful visual record of the River Thames, with 76 lovely folio hand-colored aquatints by Stadler after Farrington of prospects along the banks—including three very large folding plates—and a large folding map by John Cooke of “The Course of the River Thames from Its Source to the Sea.” An excellent copy in contemporary calf. $23,000. | More...
Corps Perdu
Signed by Aimé Césaire & Pablo Picasso
Striking first edition of this powerful celebration of black pride, number 42 of only 177 copies (out of a total edition of 219 copies) on Velin de Montval and signed by poet Aimé Césaire and artist Pablo Picasso, featuring poetry by Césaire and 32 beautiful illustrations by Picasso (one etching, one etching and rupoint, 10 aquatints, and 20 engravings with burin). $24,000. | More...
Bakst
Limited first edition of this work on Bakst, one of 600 copies, with 20 photo-type plates of costumes exquisitely hand-colored en pochoir at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet (the leading exponent of pochoir printing at the time), five mounted color-printed plates, and five black-and-white plates, and also featuring four important essays on Bakst. $6200. | More...
Jerusalem Windows
Marc Chagall
First American edition, with two original color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition, and with numerous beautiful color reproductions of the artist’s work. $2800. | More...
Verve, Vol. I, Nos. 1-4
Featuring art by Matisse, Braque, Picasso, Léger, Miró, Chagall, and others
First American editions of the first four issues of Verve, published in Paris from 1937-1939, featuring cover art by Matisse, Braque, Bonnard and Rouault, original lithographs by Picasso, Léger, Miró, Chagall, Maillol, Derain, Kandinsky and Klee, along with numerous héliogravure photographs (including Man Ray, Bill Brandt and Brassaï), first appearances of select writings by Hemingway and Joyce, and articles by Lorca, Dos Passos, Sartre, Gide, Bataille, Malraux and Valéry. Assembled in a single folio volume with the four original lithographic front covers bound in. $4800. | More...
Original Drawing of
Max and a Wild Thing
Signed by Maurice Sendak
Original large pencil drawing of Max, dressed in his monster suit, playing with the wild thing “Moishe” from Where the Wild Things Are, signed by Sendak. $18,500. | More...
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Inscribed by J.M. Barrie
First trade edition of the Arthur Rackham-illustrated Peter Pan, with 50 mounted color illustrations. A superb presentation copy, inscribed on the half title by J.M. Barrie with a quote from the book: "When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. J.M. Barrie." Splendidly bound in full exhibition morocco-gilt in the Arts & Crafts style by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with the original cloth bound in at the rear. $15,000. | More...
Tales From Shakespeare
Illustrated & Signed by Arthur Rackham
Deluxe limited large-paper edition, number 520 of 750 copies signed and illustrated by Rackham. With 13 mounted full-page color illustrations and numerous other illustrations by Rackham, beautifully bound. $3000. | More...
The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur
Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley
Limited second edition, the first one-volume edition, of Beardsley's magnificently illustrated Le Morte D'Arthur, one of only 1500 copies printed, handsomely bound, with original cloth bound in. $2200. | More...
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Illustrated by Willy Pogany
First edition to be illustrated by Willy Pogany, with 24 tipped-in color plates, decorative initials, calligraphy and page borders by Pogany. Beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Mudie. $2000. | More...
The Ruined Abbeys of Britain
Frederick Ross & Alexander Francis Lydon
First edition of this survey of Britain's religious ruins, with 12 beautiful color plates of abbeys and their environs by A.F. Lydon and dozens of intricate in-text architectural illustrations. $1100. | More...
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